Jumbo Comics, #27

Published: May 1941

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Jumbo Comics #27

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Issue Contents:
Sabre-Tooth Terror
1 page jungle
Credits
Story Notes

I think this is the first signed Celardo we've seen.

Saber-Tooth Terror (1)
Story 1 12 pages jungle

"Bored with hum-drum village life, Sheena, Bob and Chim..."

Storyline

A primitive land beneath an active volcano can only be reached on foot and by plane.

Characters
  • Sheena
  • Bob Reynolds
  • Chim (a chimpanzie)
  • Capt. Starling of the R.A.F.
Credits
Story Notes

Signature found in final panel.

Story 2 6 pages science fiction

"Stuart travels to l5th century Venice via the..."

Characters
  • Stuart Taylor
  • Lucretia Borgia
  • Dr. Hayward
  • The Duke of Farrara
  • Laura Hayward
Credits
Story 3 1 page humor; children

"Mister, if you're paintin' our ol' club house..."

Characters
  • Bobby
  • Shinynose
  • Tubby
  • Slim Pickens
  • Tiny
Credits
Story 4 6 pages western-frontier

"Midnight is now a two year old, tamed..."

Characters
  • Midnight (a horse)
  • Rick
  • Rick's father
  • Mexican Joe
  • Pedro
Story 5 6 pages superhero

"Glad you came to see our war games, Dad."

Characters
  • Lightning [Fred Larkin]
  • General Larkin
  • nameless saboteurs
Credits
  • Inks: (uncertain)
Story Notes

This is a good artist, and some of the poses call to mind Captain Marvel... Hames suggests Maxwell Elkan, but I don't see him in the pencils.

Jungle Juggernaut
Story 6 2 pages jungle

"The East Indian jungle was strangely silent..."

Characters
  • Jim Evans
  • Randi
  • Battleship the elephant
Story 7 7 pages detective-mystery

"Into a fog-bound harbor steams a freighter returning..."

Characters
  • Inspector Dayton
  • Pu Kang
  • Tong Brothers of the Gold Cobra
  • Hai Foon
  • Dr. Sung
  • Wini
  • Pock Ning
Credits
Story 8 8 pages spy

"A wild chase through the war-covered hills of..."

Characters
  • ZX-5
  • Colonel Sparting
  • Fraulein X
Story Notes

Same "shadow" artist as on #25 & 26, but Witmer Williams takes over on pages 3 and 5-8.

Story 9 1 page humor; children

"Gosh, here comes Lazy Lenny down the street..."

Characters
  • Pee Wee Myers
  • Lazy Lenny
Credits
Black Thoughts (1)
Story 10 1 page humor
Characters
  • Uncle Otto
Credits
Story 11 5 pages war

"Tom Devlin, Dick Swenson, and Harry Carson, American buddies..."

Characters
  • Tom Devlin
  • Dick Swenson
  • Harry Carson
  • Sally
Story Notes

Note that "Tansul" is an anagram of "Sultan".

Story 12 10 pages historical

"The New Orleans wharves swarm with the riff-raff..."

Characters
  • The Hawk
  • Edmund Burley [The Hawk's double]
  • Rosina
  • Caleb
  • Fluth
  • Jeremy Clogg
Credits
Story Notes

Per Mort Leav, Art Saaf was given old Eisner material and assigned to re-write, re-compose, and fill in the gaps to create "new" Eisner Hawk stories (Robin Snyder's The Comics).